Lovell vs Lovella

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Lovell Lovella

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 133 years in which either name was published, Lovell for 115 years and Lovella for 18 years. The lead changed hands 19 times.

• 1903–1905 Lovell ahead
• 1908–1910 Lovella ahead
• 1911–2011 Lovell ahead
• 2017–2019 Lovella ahead
• 2020–2022 Lovell ahead
• 2023–2025 Lovella ahead

14 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Lovellas alive today are over 51; half the Lovells are over 49. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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